UCL Energy Institute professors announced as government advisors

16 February 2012

Professor Tadj
Oreszczyn and Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute) have been announced
as advisors to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s new Energy
Efficiency Deployment Office (EEDO).

Professor Oreszczyn,
Director of the UCL Energy Institute, and Professor Ekins, Director of Energy
and Environment Policy, attended the EEDO launch last week. It was announced
that EEDO will be working with industry experts to ensure that they have the
best possible evidence, analysis and policy response to this challenging
agenda.

Professor Oreszczyn
said: “The Energy Efficiency Deployment Office is an important government
initiative driving forward the energy efficiency agenda in an area which
has previously been fragmented across stakeholder groups and government
departments. I am therefore honoured to be asked to provide advice to EEDO in
the buildings sector.”

Professor Ekins,
added: “I am very pleased to have been appointed an adviser to the new Energy
Efficiency Deployment Office. Energy efficiency has a large role to play in
helping the UK move to a low–carbon and more energy–secure future, but it is
clear that improving energy efficiency can present a number of policy
challenges. I shall be doing my very best as an adviser to help the DECC
address these effectively.”